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Re: VCenter 5.1 Certificate
Don't make your life harder than it needs to be Instead of going the manual way you can use the SSL Automation Tool. Deploying and using the SSL Certificate Automation Toolhttp://kb.vmware.com/kb/2041600
View Articledirect attached storage: interfaces not detected in vSphere Client
Hello,I am having trouble getting my ESXi boxes to see a PowerVault MD3200 Direct Attached Storage array. This does not appear to be a very common setup, as I have had a difficult time finding...
View ArticleRe: direct attached storage: interfaces not detected in vSphere Client
Have you confirmed the SAS adapters are on the VMware HCL? If they are you upgraded the firmware on the SAS adapters to the most current release?
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Re: Upgrade vSphere from 4.1 to 5.1
So I completed the upgrade of my vCenter server to 5.1 today. All went well with some minor issues which Google helped with. Thank you to everyone to provided assistance to me while preparing for this...
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Re: SQL 2005 Express to SQL 2008 Standard VMware support not helping
You beter take a backup of the existing SQL 2005 Express Databases (vCenter and VUM) and shutdown VM Create a new VM with the same name and IP address and Upgrade vCenter 4.1 from one VM to another...
View ArticleRe: VMStartTomcatImmediate not starting 1603 error. Now ....MainEngineThread...
Was this ever resolved?
View ArticleInstalling Profile-Driven Storage via vCenter 5.1 Server fails
3 Windows 2008 R2 servers (SQL Server hosting SSO and VCDB - SSO server - vCenter server) Create the SSO database and vCenter database without any issuesSSO service installs without any issuesInventory...
View ArticleRe: How to transfer ESX 4.1 configuration into ESXi 5.1u1 ?
Yes the VCenter will remains the same.
View ArticleRe: How to transfer ESX 4.1 configuration into ESXi 5.1u1 ?
Andre, My plan is to upgrade all of our remaining ESX hosts into ESXi so I wonder if there is anything that I need to save or backup to avoid reconfiguring the host again after the ESXi 5.1 upgrade...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade vSphere from 4.1 to 5.1
Vishar,Many thanks for sharing the solution with us here, so the service account that you use here is that Local SYSTEM or just local built-in server account not the AD service account ?
View ArticleRe: How to transfer ESX 4.1 configuration into ESXi 5.1u1 ?
It is possible and supported to upgrade ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.x, so you shouldn't need to have to reconfigure anything, but personally I'd consider a clean reinstallation to avoid any confusion in the...
View ArticleRe: vCenter appliance 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade
I assume you are not trying to use the update option but the upgrade one wherein you deploy a new appliance and port the data over from the old one? RegardsGirish
View ArticleRe: How to transfer ESX 4.1 configuration into ESXi 5.1u1 ?
Andre, Yes I'd prefer to go with the clean reinstall of ESXi 5.1 u1b over the ESX 4.1u1. What is the best suggested way to transfer the VMHost settings to the newly installed ESXi ? Kind Regards, Al
View ArticleRe: How to transfer ESX 4.1 configuration into ESXi 5.1u1 ?
I'm not aware of a way to transfer settings from ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 other than with upgrading the host rather than reinstalling it. However, as mentioned before, the vCenter Server settings - e.g....
View ArticleHow do I resolve ESXi boot problems?
Have tried an install of VMware ESXi 5.1.0.I downloaded iso and burned to dvd then proceeded.The installation went fine but on restart in fails to boot with just a flashing cursor on screen.The server...
View ArticleRe: How do I resolve ESXi boot problems?
By default ESXi 5 creates a GUID partition table (GPT) which requires the host to support booting from this. If the host doesn't support it, you may reinstall (i.e. wiping everything on the disk) ESXi...
View ArticleRe: direct attached storage: interfaces not detected in vSphere Client
Hi- the SAS adapters are on the HCL, and I installed the vib package provided by dell (vmware-esxi5.0-SAS-provider.vib) using PuTTY I ran the command esxcli software vib list | grep LSI which appears...
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Re: How to monitor the Performance of VMs
Here is a nice document for the mware Performance monitoring..http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_performance_mon.htmlRegards,Milton
View ArticleRe: vCenter appliance 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade
Correct - export from one appliance, import to another using the wizard. I've also upgraded to the latest version of 5.0.0 - 5.0.0.6194 Build 920217 and am still having the same issue. I believe that I...
View ArticleRe: vCenter appliance 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade
So, I am actually on the postgres database for sure. The exact failure that I'm getting right now is this : ALTER TABLE VPX_EXT_MANAGEDBY_INFO ALTER COLUMN SMALL_ICON_URL SET NOT NULL;Error while...
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